"She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints……" — Anthony Marra
"She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency."
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27 Quotes by Anthony Marra
Anthony Marra has 27 quotes on this site.
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How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?
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She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross…
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It's stupid. There are maps to show you how to get to the place where you want to be but…
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Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.
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Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.
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But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in…
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Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.
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Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.
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War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.
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We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.
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He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of…
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Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.
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More Dissolved Quotes
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one of 112 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
— Joseph Addison
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That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
— Willa Cather
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The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the…
— Aristotle
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Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is…
— Anaxagoras
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Meditation should not be a thing apart from life; it should be amidst life, it should be a part of…
— Rajneesh
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The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of…
— Carl Jung
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You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry…
— Charles Spurgeon
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When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look…
— Corita Kent
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There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which…
— Benjamin Franklin
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